The Military History of New Bedford

Christopher McDonald

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780738505206
• eBook ISBN: 9781439627563
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This accurate and exciting pictorial history will acquaint the reader with the seacoast defense of New Bedford. Fortified since the 1700s, seacoast defenses provided important protection for the New Bedford area. By the time of the Civil War, a strong granite fortress was under construction to guard the seaward approaches to the harbor of New Bedford and, later, powerful long-range guns were installed to protect the seaport. In The Military History of New Bedford, great care has been taken to identify more than two hundred vintage photographs of the harbor defense systems at all the points of Buzzards Bay, coastal fortifications, and the observation and radar towers from the Cape Cod Canal to Westport. The book identifies and explains the long-abandoned granite and concrete monoliths of New Bedford. It touches upon Gen. Robert E. Lee's role in the construction of the granite fort at Clark's Point (Fort Taber) and describes the impact that Henry Martyn Robert had in the area by writing Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies, later known as Robert's Rules of Order.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• One - THE CIVIL WAR
• Two - THE WAR OF 1898
• Three - WORLD WAR I
• Four - THE POSTWAR ERA
• Five - WORLD WAR II (FORT RODMAN)
• Six - WORLD WAR II (SUBPOSTS)
• Seven - THE POSTWAR AND COLD WAR PERIODS
• Eight - THE PRESENT
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS